{"id":97462,"date":"2024-05-15T12:40:16","date_gmt":"2024-05-15T12:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/15\/ali-wong-shares-story-of-how-bill-hader-pursued-her-amid-her-divorce\/"},"modified":"2024-05-15T12:40:16","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T12:40:16","slug":"ali-wong-shares-story-of-how-bill-hader-pursued-her-amid-her-divorce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/15\/ali-wong-shares-story-of-how-bill-hader-pursued-her-amid-her-divorce\/","title":{"rendered":"Ali Wong Shares Story of How Bill Hader Pursued Her Amid Her Divorce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.etonline.com\/people\/ali-wong\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ali Wong<\/a><span> is opening up about her personal life, discussing her divorce from Justin Hakuta and the start of her romance with comedian <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.etonline.com\/people\/bill-hader\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bill Hader.<\/a><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The 42-year-old<\/span><em><span> Beef<\/span><\/em><span> star performed a series of sold-out shows at the Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles, and on Sunday night, Hader joined her on stage at the end of her set.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Prior to the <\/span><em><span>Saturday Night Live<\/span><\/em><span> and <\/span><em><span>Barry <\/span><\/em><span>star&#8217;s cameo, Wong talked about her post-divorce dating life, per <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/tv-movies\/tv-movie-recaps\/ali-wong-stand-up-bill-hader-1235020177\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Rolling Stone<\/em><\/a><span>, saying she has &#8220;never been pursued this much in my life.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>She then went on to explain how Hader first reached out to her, without initially naming him.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;I get a phone call from this guy who I met at a dinner party in the past, and he got my number from a mutual friend,&#8221; she shared. &#8220;He was like, &#8216;Hey, I just happened to hear the news about your divorce, and I&#8217;ve had a crush on you forever. I actually told my best friend years ago that you were my dream girl, and I know it sounds crazy, but I want you to be my girlfriend.'&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Wong claims that she turned Hader down because she&#8217;d just signed up for a $25 dating app and wanted to &#8220;get my money\u2019s worth.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<figure class=\"shortcode shortcode-image content-in\"><figcaption class=\"content-in\"><span>Ali Wong and Bill Hader attend the 29th Annual Critics Choice Awards at Barker Hangar on Jan. 14, 2024 in Santa Monica, California.<\/span> &#8211; <span class=\"shortcode-image__credit\">Kevin Mazur\/Getty Images for Critics Choice Association<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span>She said that after leaving for a Europe trip, Hader sent flowers to every hotel where she stayed, which her girlfriends thought was sweet while her male friends found alarming.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;That\u2019s how cheap and lazy men have become. When a fellow man commits any act of kindness, any romantic gesture, it must be a symptom of an undiagnosed mental illness,&#8221; Wong quipped.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>At the end of the show, Hader came out to the cheering crowd, revealing himself to be the man Wong told the story about and declaring, &#8220;All I have to say is, Ali Wong is off the market.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Back in January, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/ali-wong-on-kissing-bill-hader-after-golden-globe-win-but-thanking-her-ex-in-her-speech-exclusive\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wong opened up to ET<\/a><span> about kissing Hader at the Golden Globe Awards before she thanked her ex Hakuta in her acceptance speech.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure class=\"shortcode shortcode-image content-in\"><figcaption class=\"content-in\"><span>Ali Wong and Justin Hakuta arrive at the premiere of Netflix&#8217;s Always Be My Maybe at the Regency Village Theatre on May 22, 2019 in Westwood, California<\/span> &#8211; <span class=\"shortcode-image__credit\">Amanda Edwards\/WireImage<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span>Wong told the crowd while accepting her award for her role in <\/span><em><span>Beef<\/span><\/em><span>, &#8220;I really need to thank the father of my children and my best friend Justin for all of your love and support. It&#8217;s because of you that I&#8217;m able to be a working mother.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Speaking with ET about the message of gratitude, Wong explained, &#8220;Yeah that&#8217;s right, I like to keep it peaceful and grateful and amicable.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Wong and\u00a0Hakuta &#8212; who tied the knot in 2014 &#8212; separated in April 2022, and she <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/ali-wong-files-for-divorce-from-justin-hakuta-more-than-a-year-after-separating-216942\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">officially filed for divorce<\/a><span> in December 2023 citing &#8220;irreconcilable differences.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Wong and Hader\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/ali-wong-and-bill-hader-are-dating-again-following-brief-split-last-year-202880\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>confirmed last year that they were once again dating<\/b><\/a><span>, after a brief split, and it appears their adorable romance is still going strong.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span>RELATED CONTENT:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/ali-wong-shares-sweet-story-of-how-bill-hader-pursued-her-amid-her-divorce-225473\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ali Wong is opening up about her personal life, discussing her divorce from Justin Hakuta and the start of her romance with comedian Bill Hader.\u00a0 The 42-year-old Beef star performed a series of sold-out shows at the Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles, and on Sunday night, Hader joined her on stage at the end of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":97463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1571,1570,174,20],"class_list":{"0":"post-97462","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-ali-wong","9":"tag-bill-hader","10":"tag-entertainment-tonight","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}